Appendix B: Managing Digital Media; Formatting Media - RED ONE Operation Manual

APPENDIX B: MANAGING DIGITAL MEDIA

The RED ONE™ camera supports two types of media - compact flash and external hard disk.
Compact Flash (CF) media requires a REDFLASH™ (CF) module mounted to the left side of the camera
body. Hard disk media is housed in a RED-DRIVE® magazine connected via a custom16-pin SATA inter-
face cable (POWER connector) located at the rear of the camera body.
REDFLASH ™ (CF) compact flash media is available with capacities of 8GB and 16GB. Record duration
is dependent on resolution, quality and frame rate, but a 8GB CF card will typically provide 4 minutes of
24fps 4K RAW, 7 minutes of 24fps 3K RAW, or 16 minutes of 24fps 2K RAW recording.
RED-DRIVE® media is available with capacities of 320GB or 640GB. Record duration is dependent on
resolution, quality and frame rate, but a RED-DRIVE 320GB will typically provide 160 minutes of 24fps 4K
RAW, 280 minutes of 24fps 3K RAW, or 640 minutes of 24fps 2K RAW recording.
RED-RAM® media is available with capacities of 64GB or 128GB. Record duration is dependent on reso-
lution, quality and frame rate, but a RED-RAM™ 64GB will typically provide 32 minutes of 24fps 4K RAW,
56 minutes of 24fps 3K RAW, or 128 minutes of 24fps 2K RAW recording.

FORMATTING MEDIA

Media must be formatted prior to using it for recording. Formatting is performed on camera, although me-
dia may be erased on a Macintosh OS X personal computer, allowing the camera to just add the neces-
sary project profile and clip log data.
NOTE: Media formatted on-camera will use a name and root volume in the format:
Camera Letter + Reel Number + Month + Day + ** where ** is a two digit alphanumeric random number
generated by the camera for each file e.g. A001_0512A6.RDM
Clips recorded to the media follow similar naming conventions
A001_C001_0512A6_001.RDC and A001_C001_0512A6_H.mov etc...
IMPORTANT: Media must always be un-mounted prior to removal or disconnection from the cam-
era. This ensures power is removed from the digital media and any open data files are closed. Fail-
ure to do so may result in lost data or corrupted files. Refer to
(UNMOUNT).
This procedure outlines the formatting of Compact Flash cards or RED-DRIVE®/RED-RAM® magazine
using the RED ONE™ camera. Formatting a CF card or RED-RAM® will take about 10 -15 seconds; a
RED-DRIVE® formats in less than a minute.
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